Also known as BCV1; Els Hostalets de Pierola

Where: Cataluña, Spain (41.4° N, 1.6° E: paleocoordinates 41.6° N, 0.5° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: MN 7 + 8 (12.8 - 11.1 Ma)

• from "the lowermost part of the MN 7/8 bioestratigraphic unit" (sic)

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Collection methods: Institut de Paleontologia M. Crusafont collection

•apparently a new collection made much more recently than the classic Hostalets de Pierola collections

Primary reference: S. Moyà-Solà, M. Köhler, D. M. Alba, I. Casanovas-Vilar, and J. Galindo. 2004. Pierolapithecus catalaunicus, a new Middle Miocene great ape from Spain. Science 306:1339-1344 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 92640: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 20.11.2009, edited by Jonathan Tennant and Evangelos Vlachos

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